Medusa Portland Cement Co. v. Illinois Central Railroad

Mr. Presiding Justice John J. Sullivan

delivered the opinion of the court.

By this appeal plaintiff, Medusa Portland Cement Company (successor in interest to Sandusky Cement Company) seeks to reverse a judgment rendered against it in favor of defendant, Illinois Central Bail-road Company, in plaintiff’s common law action in assumpsit against the latter for $22,917.60 damages, alleged to be due by reason of unjust, unreasonable, excessive and discriminatory rates charged and exacted by defendant from plaintiff for the transportation of bituminous coal in carload lots from mines in the…